Happy September 1st to all FHL scientists, students and supporters!
Wow, where did the summer go? We had a very busy one here at FHL, with many events to celebrate our researchers, outreach program, and friends.

This month’s Tide Bites features Sasha Seroy, a graduate student in the Oceanography Department at the University of Washington, advised by Dr. Daniel Grünbaum.
“Understanding the Effects of Ocean Acidification on Predator-Prey Interactions”
by Sasha Seroy

Here in the Pacific Northwest, it was one of the wettest winters on record, but then the skies turned blue and we had three perfect sunny days over Memorial Day weekend, and all things were good again.

Happy May Day to our FHL friends and family!
On Friday night, we had a lovely meal celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the FHL Advancement Board. This enthusiastic group of FHL supporters was the brilliant foresight of previous Director Dennis Willows and friend and supporter Bob Lundeen.

It’s April and Spring has arrived!!
The wet winter has catalyzed the daffodils, and they are out in numbers on the island. At FHL, the UW students are a week into either ZooBots or the Marine Biology Quarter.

It’s been a tough month for all of us here at FHL, and winter is lingering: we had snow falling at least three separate times in February. We are not used to snow on San Juan Island, so we tough it out until it melts, but it’s disruptive.

This month’s Tide Bite outlines Adam Summers’ quest to scan every species of fish in the world here at FHL in the new Karel F. Liem Bio-Imaging Center. Adam gives an overview about the Center, then two students describe their research and how it was advanced by a trip to FHL to scan their fish species.

Happy New Year!!
Our 2017 New Year’s Tide Bite is written by a scientific illustrator, Andrea Dingeldein, who did her internship at FHL in the summer of 2016. Read about how scientific illustrators can be critical to scientific communication, and enjoy her creative drawing of three sea urchin species on the 2017 FHL Bulletin cover, which you should have received in the mail in mid-December.